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We recently told you that we were testing a copyright video detection tool. It is now online and we will continue to enhance it in the month to come and to benchmark other tools that detect copyright videos. We also told you that we were working on a tool that allows you to replace the copyrighted music in the videos you create with cleared music beds we have negotiated with our music partners. Well… this is also up on our site and ready to use.

This tool is named Audio Remix. When one of your videos is detected to have a copyrighted audio track, we will ask you to use Audio Remix to replace the audio track.

Audio Remix is very easy to use. Only three steps are necessary to change the audio track of your video:

1. Choose a genre and artist
2. Select the track you would like to use
3. Click “Publish” to insert the new track into your video

This process only takes a few seconds, plus a couple of minutes to reencode the video, and is an easy way to respect your favorite artists’ copyrights.

We just signed a deal with our friends at Jamendo to give you access to over 50 songs. In the future, we will constantly add new music to the Audio Remix library to give you the largest choice possible!

Attention all Obsessive Star Wars Fans!!!

If you think you¹re the biggest Star Wars Fanboy (or Fangirl) EVER, then get ready for an unbelievable contest on Dailymotion from July 25th to August 31st! You could win a walk-on role in the upcoming movie Fanboys, starring Kristen Bell from Veronica Mars, which follows fanatical, crazy, and wild Star Wars fans on a cross-country trek to sneak into a preview of Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace.

To enter this contest, users (US residents only) can register and upload an original video no longer than 3 minutes showing why they¹re the ultimate Star Wars fan to the Ultimate Fanboys Contest Group at http://fanboys.dailymotion.com. Be creative, be funny, be yourself!

Check out the videos on the Group page and add the ones you like most to your favorites. The 10 videos that have been added to favorites the most will move on to the next round. Then, the producers of the movie will pick the winner!

Not only will you get a walk-on role in Fanboys, you’ll be featured in the Special Features on the DVD! George Lucas has already given his official seal of approval to the movie, so you’ll be a part of Star Wars history!

OK - start uploading your video and may the Force be with you!

On July 18th, Dailymotion U.S. announced the New York City-based sketch comedy troupe The Dregs as the winner of the “Great Sketch Comedy Showdown” competition (http://www.dailymotion.com/group/63851).

The Dregs, comprised of members Sandra Bauleo, John Roberts (the one in drag), Gina Vetro, and Clay Weiner, will receive a six month development deal with comedy producer Jim Biederman. This award includes mentoring, creative input and assistance in obtaining a distribution deal. The Dreg’s winning entries can be seen at http://www.dailymotion.com/the_dregs.

Jim Biederman is Dailymotion’s first professional mentor for the MotionMaker Mentor program in the US, which identifies and rewards outstanding contributors to the Dailymotion creative community. Jim was an executive producer of hit television series “Kids in the Hall,” “The Tom Green Show,” “The Andy Dick Show,” and “Whitest Kids U’Know.”

Over the course of four weeks, two hundred sketch comedy troupes uploaded over 900 videos! Dailymotion thanks all of the troupes for participating and we plan on featuring many of the videos on our homepages both in the US and International.

We just wanted to tell you that we changed our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailymotionBlog

Why did we change? Simply to know how many of you are reading us, who is reading us, and to provide you more informations about the post your reading through the RSS feed like comments count.

Upon the request of entertainment industry copyright holders, we have recently beta-launched a tool which allows us to identify copyrighted content and to prevent its publication on Dailymotion.

This solution, which has been developed by Audible Magic, allow us to detect copyrighted videos and to isolate them from other videos for which our users and media partners hold distribution rights. This tool is automatic, and as such, as soon as a video is submitted to the site, a fingerprint is created for the file and sent to a database of similar fingerprints provided by copyright holders. If the uploaded file matches a protected file within the database, the video is not published on the site. In the event that an agreement exists with the copyright holder, we will be able to propose to our users that their file be replaced online by the original version.

The launch of this tool is part of our collaborative strategy with content creators to make Dailymotion a destination where web users and creators can maximize their interaction.

We are aware that the testing of this tool may pose certain problems to our users. For example, slideshows or videos featuring lip syncing may well be blocked by the system because the music featured in the video is currently protected under copyright law. In order to work around this problem, we are currently studying a tool which would offer the possibility to replace the copyright-protected music in a user’s film with an alternate soundtrack, from a selection of titles available within the public domain or whose distribution rights have been negotiated with our partners.

Please rest assured that throughout the testing phase of this tool, we shall do our best that it respects Dailymotion’s vision to develop an independent and open site, providing a place where users of all talents can express themselves.

Update:

This tool does not yet affect videos published before its launch. Older videos will be subject to Audible Magic control once the test is finished.